- Dziak, J. J., Coffman, D. L., Reimherr, M., Petrovich, J., Li, R., Shiffman, S., & Shiyko, M. P. (2019). Scalar-on-function regression for predicting distal outcomes from intensively gathered longitudinal data: Interpretability for applied scientists. Statistics Surveys, 13: 150-180.
- Hiremath, S. V., Amiri, A. M., Chhetry, B. T., Snethen, G., Schmidt-Read, M., Lamboy, M. R., Coffman, D. L., & Intille, S. S. (2019). Mobile health-based physical activity intervention for individuals with spinal cord injury in the community: A pilot study. PLOS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0223762.
- Cuesta, H., Coffman, D. L., Branas, C., & Murphy, H. (2019). Using decision trees to understand the influence of individual- and neighborhood-level factors on urban diabetes and asthma. Health and Place, 50.
- Spaeth, A. M., Hawley, N. L., Raynor, H. A., Jelalian, E., Greer, A., Crouter, S. E., Coffman, D. L., Carskadon, M. A., Owens, J. A., Wing, R. R., & Hart, C. N. (2019). Sleep, energy balance, and meal timing in school-aged children. Sleep Medicine, 60, 139-144.
- Dziak, J. J., Coffman, D. L., Lanza, S. T., Li, R., & Jermiin, L. S. (2019). Sensitivity and specificity of information criteria. Briefings in Bioinformatics.
- Mennis, J., Mason, M., Coffman, D. L., & Henry, K. (2018). Geographic imputation of missing activity space data from ecological momentary assessment (EMA) GPS positions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(12), 2740.
- Coffman, D. L., Zhou, J., Cai, X., & Graham, J. W. (2018). Addressing missing data in confounders when estimating propensity scores for continuous exposures. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 18(4), 265-286.
- Lepore, S. J., Collins, B. N., Coffman, D. L., Winickoff, J. P., Nair, U. S., Moughan, B., Bryant-Stephens, T., Taylor, D., Fleece, D., & Godfrey, M. (2018). Kids Safe & Smokefree (KiSS) multilevel intervention to reduce child tobacco smoke exposure: Long-term results of a randomized trial. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 15(6), 1239.
- Davison, K. K., Blake, C. E., Kachurak, A., Lumeng, J., Coffman, D. L., Miller, A. L., Hughes, S. O., Power, T., Vaughn, A., Blaine, R. E., Younginger, N., & Fisher, J. O. (2018). Development and preliminary validation of the parenting around snacking (P-SNAQ) questionnaire. Appetite, 125, 323-332.
- Rhew, I. C., Oesterle, S., Coffman, D. L., & Hawkins, J. D. (2018). Effects of exposure to the Communities That Care prevention system on youth problem behaviors in a community-randomized trial: An inverse probability weighting approach. Evaluation & the Health Professions, 41(2), 270-289.
- Leonard, N. R., Silverman, M., Sherpa, D., Naegle, M., Kim, H., Coffman, D. L., & Ferdschneider, M. (2017). Acceptability and feasibility of a mobile health technology using a wearable sensorband for female college students with problem drinking. Journal of Medical Internet Research mHealth and uHealth, 5(7), e90.
- Henneberger, A. K., Coffman, D. L., & Gest, S. D. (2017). The effect of having aggressive friends on aggressive behavior in childhood: Using propensity scores to strengthen causal inference. Social Development, 26(2), 295-309.
- Kugler, K. C., Vasilenko, S. A., Butera, N. M., & Coffman, D. L. (2017). Long-term consequences of early sexual initiation on young adult health: A causal inference approach. Journal of Early Adolescence, 37(5), 662-676.
- Schuler, M. S., Chu, W., & Coffman, D. L. (2016). Propensity score weighting for a continuous treatment in a multilevel data setting. Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 16(4), 217-292.
- Selya, A., Engel-Rebitzer, E., Dierker, L., Stephen, E., Rose, J., Coffman, D. L., & Otis, M. (2016). The causal effect of student mobility on standardized test performance: A case study with possible implications for accountability mandates within the elementary and secondary education act. Frontiers in Psychology, 7:1096.
- Coffman, D. L., Balantekin, K., & Savage-Williams, J. (2016). Using propensity methods to assess causal effects of mothers’ dieting behavior on daughters’ early dieting behavior. Childhood Obesity, 12(5), 334-340.
- Powers, C. J., Bierman, K., & Coffman, D. L. (2016). Restrictive educational placements increase adolescent risk for students with early-starting conduct problems. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57(8), 899-908.
- Zhu, Y., Ghosh, D., Coffman, D. L., & Savage-Williams, J. (2016). Estimating controlled direct effects of restrictive feeding practices in the ‘Early dieting in girls’ study. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics), 65(1), 115-130.
- Miller, J. A., Smith, E. A., Coffman, D. L., Mathews, C., & Wegner, L. (2016). Forced sexual experiences and sexual situation self-efficacy among South African youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26(4), 673-686.
- Ghosh, D., Zhu, Y., & Coffman, D. L. (2015). Penalized regression procedures for variable selection in the potential outcomes framework. Statistics in Medicine, 34, 1645-1658.
- Scalco, M., Trucco, E., Coffman, D. L., & Colder, C. (2015). Selection and socialization effects in early adolescent alcohol use: A propensity score analysis. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 43, 1131-1143.
- Kordas, K., Ardoino, G., Coffman, D. L., Queirolo, E. I., Ciccariello, D., Manay, N., & Ettinger, A. (2015). Patterns of exposure to multiple metals and associations with neurodevelopment of preschool children from Montevideo, Uruguay. Journal of Environmental and Public Health, 2015, 493471.
- Zhu, Y., Schonbach, M., Coffman, D. L., & Savage-Williams, J. (2015). Variable selection for propensity score estimation via balancing covariates. Epidemiology, 26(2), e14-15.
- Coffman, D. L., Melde, C., & Esbensen, F.-A. (2015). Gang membership and substance use: Guilt as a gendered causal pathway. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 11(1), 71-95.
- Zhu, Y., Coffman, D. L., & Ghosh, D. (2015). A boosting algorithm for estimating generalized propensity scores with continuous treatments. Journal of Causal Inference, 3, 25-40.
- Van Hook, J., Bachmeier, J. D., Coffman, D. L., & Harel, O. (2015). Can we spin straw into gold? An evaluation of immigrant legal status imputation approaches. Demography, 52, 329-354.
- Jones, J., Hartman, T. J., Klifa, C. S., Coffman, D. L., Mitchell, D. C., Vernarelli, J. A., Snetselaar, L. G., Van Horn, L., Stevens, V. J., Robson, A. M., Himes, J. H., Shepherd, J. A., & Dorgan, J. F. (2015). Dietary energy density is positively associated with breast density among young women. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 115(3), 353-359.
- Conroy, D. E., Ram, N., Pincus, A. L., Coffman, D. L., Lorek, A. E., Rebar, A. L., & Roche, M. J. (2015). Daily physical activity and alcohol use across the adult lifespan. Health Psychology, 34, 653-660.
- Crowley, D. M., Jones, D. E., Coffman, D. L., & Greenberg, M. T. (2014). Can we build an efficient response to the prescription drug abuse epidemic? Assessing the cost effectiveness of universal prevention. Preventive Medicine, 62, 71-77.
- Ford, D. W., Hartman, T. J., Still, C., Wood, G. C., Mitchell, D. C., Bailey, R., Smiciklas-Wright, H., Coffman, D. L., & Jensen, G. (2014). Diet quality and body mass index are associated with healthcare resource use in rural older adults. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 114(12), 1932-1938.
- Butera, N. M., Lanza, S. T., & Coffman, D. L. (2014). A framework for estimating causal effects in latent class analysis: Is there a causal link between early sex and subsequent profiles of delinquency? Prevention Science, 15(3), 397-407.
- Ford, D. W., Hartman, T. J., Still, C., Wood, G. C., Mitchell, D., Erickson, P., Bailey, R., Smiciklas-Wright, H., Coffman, D. L., & Jensen, G. (2014). Body mass index, poor diet quality, and health-related quality of life are associated with mortality in rural older adults. Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics, 33(1), 23-34.
- Ford, D. W., Jensen, G., Still, C., Wood, C., Mitchell, D., Erickson, P., Bailey, R., Smiciklas-Wright, H., Coffman, D. L., & Hartman, T. J. (2014). The associations between diet quality, body mass index (BMI) and health related quality of life (HRQOL) in the Geisinger Rural Aging Study (GRAS). Journal of Nutrition, Health, & Aging, 18(2), 167-170.
- Crowley, D. M., Coffman, D. L., Feinberg, M. E., & Greenberg, M. T. (2014). Evaluating the impact of implementation factors on family-based prevention programming: Methods for strengthening causal inference. Prevention Science, 15(2), 246-255.
- Solmeyer, A. R., Feinberg, M. E., Coffman, D. L., & Jones, D. E. (2014). The effects of the Family Foundations prevention program on coparenting and child adjustment: A mediation analysis. Prevention Science, 15(2), 213-233.
- Smith, R. A., Wienke, S. E., & Coffman, D. L. (2014). Alpha-1 couples: Interpersonal and intrapersonal predictors of spousal communication and stress. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 23(2), 212-220.
- Lippold, M., Coffman, D. L., & Greenberg, M. T. (2014). Investigating the potential causal relationship between parental knowledge and youth risky behavior: A propensity score analysis. Prevention Science, 15, 869-878.
- Ford, D. W., Hartman, T. J., Still, C., Wood, C., Mitchell, D., Hsiao, P.-Y., Bailey, R., Smiciklas-Wright, H., Coffman, D. L., & Jensen, G. (2014). Diet-related practices and body mass index (BMI) associated with diet quality in older adults. Public Health Nutrition, 17(7), 1565-1569.
- Lanza, S. T., Coffman, D. L., & Xu, S. (2013). Causal inference in latent class analysis. Structural Equation Modeling, 20, 361-383.
- Hsaio, P.-Y., Mitchell, D. C., Coffman, D. L., Allman, R. M., Locher, J. L., Sawyer, P., Jensen, G. L., & Hartman, T. J. (2013). Dietary patterns and diet quality among diverse older adults: The University of Alabama at Birmingham study of aging. Journal of Nutrition, Health, & Aging, 17(1), 19-25.
- Hsaio, P.-Y., Mitchell, D. C., Coffman, D. L., Wood, G. C., Hartman, T. J., Still, C., & Jensen, G. L. (2013). Dietary patterns and relationship to obesity-related health outcomes and mortality in adults 75 years of age or greater. Journal of Nutrition, Health, & Aging, 17(6), 566-572.
- Lindgren, J., Dorgan, J. F., Savage-Williams, J., Coffman, D. L., & Hartman, T. J. (2013). Diet across the lifespan and the association with breast density in adulthood. International Journal of Breast Cancer, 2013, Article ID 808317. doi: 10.1155/2013/808317.
- Coffman, D. L., Caldwell, L. L., & Smith, E. A. (2012). Introducing the at-risk average causal effect with application to HealthWise South Africa. Prevention Science, 13(4), 437-447. doi: 10.1007/s11121-011-0271-0 c PMCID: PMC3405190
- Coffman, D. L., & Kugler, K. C. (2012). Causal mediation of a human immunodeficiency virus preventive intervention. Nursing Research, 61(3), 224-230.
- Coffman, D. L., & Zhong, W. (2012). Assessing mediation using marginal structural models in the presence of confounding and moderation. Psychological Methods, 17(4), 642-664.
- Hsiao, P.-Y., Jensen, G. L., Hartman, T. J., Mitchell, D. C., Nickols-Richardson, S. M., & Coffman, D. L. (2011). Food intake patterns and body mass index in older adults: A review of the epidemiological evidence. Journal of Nutrition in Gerontology and Geriatrics, 30(3), 204-224.
- Coffman, D. L. (2011). Estimating causal effects in mediation analysis using propensity scores. Structural Equation Modeling, 18(3), 357-369.
- Sharp, E., Coffman, D. L., Caldwell, L., Smith, E. A., Wegner, L., Vergnani, T., & Mathews, C. (2011). Predicting substance use behavior among South African adolescents: The role of leisure experiences across time. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 35(4), 343-351.
- Coffman, D. L., Smith, E. A., Flisher, A. J., & Caldwell, L. L. (2011). Effects of HealthWise South Africa on condom use self-efficacy. Prevention Science, 12(2), 162-172.
- Maydeu-Olivares, A., Coffman, D. L., Garcia-Forero, C., & Gallardo-Pujol, D. (2010). Hypothesis testing for coefficient alpha: A SEM approach. Behavior Research Methods, 42(2), 618-625.
- Caldwell, L. L., Bradley, S., & Coffman, D. L. (2009). A person-centered approach to individualizing a school-based universal prevention intervention. American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, 35(4), 214-219.
- Coffman, D. L., & BeLue, R. (2009). Using item response theory to detect differential item functioning in health disparities research. Journal of Community Psychology, 37(5), 1-12.
- Maydeu-Olivares, A., Kramp, U., Garcia-Forero, C., Gallardo-Pujol, D., & Coffman, D. L. (2009). The effect of varying the number of response alternatives in rating scales: Experimental evidence from intra-individual effects. Behavior Research Methods, 41(2), 295-308.
- Coffman, D. L. (2008). Model error in covariance structure models: Some implications for power and Type I error. Methodology, 4(4), 159-167. PMCID: PMC3039454
- Coffman, D. L., Maydeu-Olivares, A., & Arnau, J. (2008). Asymptotically distribution-free interval estimation for an intraclass correlation coefficient with applications to longitudinal data. Methodology, 4(1), 4-9.
- Coffman, D. L., Patrick, M. E., Palen, L., Rhoades, B. L., & Ventura, A. K. (2007). Why do high school seniors drink? Implications for a targeted approach to intervention. Prevention Science, 8, 241-248.
- Maydeu-Olivares, A., Coffman, D. L., & Hartmann, W. M. (2007). Asymptotically distribution-free interval estimation for coefficient alpha. Psychological Methods, 12(2), 157-176.
- Maydeu-Olivares, A., & Coffman, D. L. (2006). Random intercept item factor analysis. Psychological Methods, 11(4), 344-362.
- Coffman, D. L., & Millsap, R. E. (2006). Evaluating latent growth curve models using individual fit statistics. Structural Equation Modeling, 13(1), 1-27.
- Cai, L., Maydeu-Olivares, A., Coffman, D. L., & Thissen, D. (2006). Limited information goodness-of-fit testing in sparse 2P tables: A follow-up to Bartholomew and Leung’s (2002) results. The British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, 59, 173-194.
- Coffman, D. L., & MacCallum, R. C. (2005). Using parcels to convert path analysis models into latent variable models. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 40(2), 235-259.
- Coffman, D. L., & Gilligan, T. D. (2002). Social support, stress, and self-efficacy: Effects on students' satisfaction. Journal of College Student Retention: Research, Theory, and Practice, 4(1), 53-65.